Flying Ointment

Flying ointment, also known as witches' flying ointment, green ointment, magic salve and lycanthropic ointment, is a hallucinogenic ointment said to be used by witches in the Early Modern period (first described by Johannes Hartlieb in 1456).

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Famous quotes containing the words flying and/or ointment:

    A word carries far—very far—deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a foul odor; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
    Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 10:1.